Turning challenges to opportunities

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Taking Challenges to Opportunities

Tim Worboys Sr. Manager, Software Engineering @ LinkedIn

Various High-Level Volunteer Positions @ IEEE Member, Communications Committee @ IEEE-USA

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Face Your Fears

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Don’t Let Your Dreams Get In the Way of Your

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Do What You’re Passionate About

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Success is about making yourself replaceable, not

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Don’t be Afraid to Change Your Path

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Don’t Be Afraid to Ask – We Get Judged on How

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Ask How You Can Help

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Be Authentic and Nice

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Find the Need YOU can Fill

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The Best Opportunities May not Always be the

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Always Be Doing Something You Don’t

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Surround Yourself with Mentors

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Always Challenge the Status Quo

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Confidence doesn’t come from always being right, but instead from not being afraid to be wrong – Peter T. McIntyre

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Confidence is Most of the Battle

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Explicitly Choose Your Tours of Duty

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Focus on Your Strengths

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Everyone Can Teach You Something

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Don’t be a victim

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No Decision is a Decision – The Worst

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Figure Out Your Brand & Share It!

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Volunteering - People Let You Do Things You

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Change is Opportunity

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If You Have to Make a Mistake Fail Fast

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Don’t Let Wrong Decisions Become

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Follow me on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tworboys

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Additional Reading

  The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career, by Reid Hoffman

  The Alliance, by Reid Hoffman

  Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values, by Fred Kofman

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Who You Know Matters

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Being a Generalist is Good

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You Never Know Who You’ll Inspire; Be

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